Belgium's prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to address sexual abuse by ...

Usually, diplomatic protocol keeps outrage out of the public speeches. The PM's tone underscored just how raw the abuse ...

In a speech in Brussels on Friday, Pope Francis denounced the sexual abuse of minors by priests as a "disgrace" that the ...

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

To sum up, Pope Francis faces a steep mountain to climb in Belgium in persuading a fairly jaded public to give the Catholic Church another chance – or, at least, to stop seeing it as the enemy.

Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday ... now presides over the sacrament at a small but packed Don Bosco church while the main Sunday Mass at the city's big Catholic ...

Traditionally a Catholic country, Belgium has seen a significant decline in church attendance in recent decades. Although the Vatican says about 72% of the 11.6 million population is Catholic ...

“The certainty with which our church posits certain ethical ... University of Leuven is the oldest Catholic university in the “Low Countries” of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.